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  • Microsoft ups ante in desktop search

    Microsoft has released a final version of its desktop-search software as it tries to enhance its presence in the burgeoning market staked out by rivals Yahoo and Google.

  • MSN joins desktop search fray

    Microsoft's MSN has unveiled desktop-search technology, entering a hotly contested race to dominate information access on the PC.

  • Ballmer: Search was our worst mistake

    Microsoft's failure to invest more in Internet search technology was the company's biggest mistake in years, a chagrined Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Thursday.

  • Protect your identity as you surf

    The Internet is a dangerous place, full of profiteers who sell your personal data to information brokers and cunning criminals who have nothing better to do than obtain credit cards in your name, go on spending sprees, and ruin your credit rating. So whether you're shopping or chatting online, you'll need to take certain precautions to keep your personal info from falling into the wrong hands. Try these tips.

  • Skype shakes off consumer shackles

    Skype is shaking off its consumer shackles and finding favour with enterprises, with almost one-third of its customers using its telephony software for business.

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  • How to stop SPIM abuse

    Abuse of IM can cripple workforce productivity, and even more serious is SPIM -- spam sent through instant messaging -- which is growing like a virus.

  • Do you Google?

    As the company reaches beyond its Internet search roots, critics ask whether success may breed an identity crisis.

  • Take control of your desktop chaos

    Desktop search apps represent next frontier in jointly navigating the Web and operating system.

Reviews (2)

  • New IE may burst pop-up bubble

    Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft.

  • Instant Messaging Road-Test

    There are a swag-load of instant messaging applications available these days -- we run eight of them through the wringer, to save you the trouble.

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